Information for course "Empowering You! What to expect from day 1 to the last day"

Description: This new course is advantageous to all English teaching professionals. You will be faced with many new and exciting situations while teaching English abroad. However, in order to stay positive during your time, you must have realistic expectations. This course helps ESL teachers in their expectations as an ESL teacher and what they should know before they step into the classroom. This course is 50 hours long can be completed in as little as 2 weeks.

Objectives: You may be excited since you just got your first teaching job and you will be living abroad. Life is great until you lower yourself from your adrenaline rush and realize you are starting your first job teaching English where your performance is key and you are going to be in an entirely different culture, where you may not know anyone and you can only see your friends and family through Skype. This is a lot to take in so we recommend to our students that they take the Empowering You! What to expect from day 1 to the last day whose objectives will help you to prepare yourself for what is to come.

Some of the objectives of this course include:

o Preparing for your first days on the job.
o Situations to be mindful of while teaching and living life abroad.
o Preparing students to make the best out of any situation that comes along, whether it is professional or personal.
o How to deal with problems that may arise in the workplace.
o How to curb your expectancies of your teaching skills and of what your students learn.

Especially when it is your first time teaching it is hard to manage all the different changes. You may also have unrealistic expectations and goals, which can feel like a defeat when they are not reached. This course helps you to realize what is normal from your first day up until the last. Once you know what to expect, it will be one less thing to worry about while you are teaching abroad.